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The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

Posted Nov 18, 2014 0:07 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate by neilbrown
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

TCL, lua, javascript are all languages that effectively allow very sophisticated tools to be configured in very sophisticated ways.

Are they all gross violations?

Further, at least two of these (Lua and Tcl) explicitly started as ways to write, well, Turing-complete configuration files: configury and program in the same language. Javascript didn't, but then it grew JSON, which is, well, exactly the same thing.

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The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

Posted Nov 18, 2014 2:40 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

Sort of. But serious users of JSON never stick it into a string and eval(). That way lies nightmares and security holes.

In best practice JSON is non-executable.


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